3. Answer the following questions.
(a) When and where was Louis Braille born?
(b) What was the name of the school that Louis attended in Paris?
(c) What were the difficulties that Louis faced while reading the books meant for the visually challenged at his school?
(d) What did Louis do with the awl after he came to know about Barbier's system?
(e) How many characters did Louis get through different combinations of the dots?
plz. ans these questions
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Answer:
a) Louis Braille was born on 4 January 1809 at Coupvray, France.
b) Upon receiving a scholarship, he went in 1819 to Paris to attend the National Institute for Blind Children
c) his injured eye became infected and the infection spread to his other eye. Within a short time, Louis lost sight in both eyes and was permanently blind. At that time, most people who were blind were helpless. They had to depend on others.
e) His system had only six dots — three dots lined up in each of two columns. He assigned different combinations of dots to different letters and punctuation marks, with a total of 64 symbols.
Answer:
the louis used the the the awl to invent a new script for the blind using the sharp tip of the awl for he punches hole and in a piece of paper he reduced the number of dots in Barbieas system To six. this meant that a character could be felt with a simple touch of the fingertip through different combination of the dots he got 63 characters to each character He anssined a letter of the alphabet A number of Mathematics note this language came to be known as Braille